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Entrant: Quad Productions / Quad Group, Paris
Brand: 30 Millions d'Amis Foundation
Title: "The Call"
Corporate Name of Client: 30 Millions d'Amis Fundation
Agency: Altamnn & Pacreau, Paris
Agency Presidents: Olivier Altmann/Edouard Pacreau
Chief Creative Officer: Olivier Altmann
Copywriter: Jack Roman
Art Director: Charles Schiepan
Agency Head of TV: Jessica Piergiovanni
Production Companies: Quad Productions / Quad Group, Paris
Director: Bruno Aveillan
Executive Producer: Timothée Boullié
Line Producer: Thomas Le Peutrec
Director of Photography: Bruno Aveillan
Post-Production Companies: Quad Productions / Quad Group, Paris
Executive Post-Producer: Nataly Aveillan
Flame Artists: Aymeric Rochas/Anne Georges
SFX Supervisor/Lead Flame: Benjamin Laborde
Production Service Company: Shelter, Kiev
Edit Facility: Fix StudioParis/Quad Group, Paris
Editor: Thanh Long Bach
Color Companies: Fix StudioParis/Quad Group, Paris
Colorist: Arthur Paux
Sound Design Company: AOC - Attention O Chiens, Paris
Music Composer: Olafur ARNALDS
Song Title: "Erla's Waltz"

Description:
In a difficult but important watch, this film puts the plight of animals in distress to the fore through a series of desperate pleas. The campaign is a response to animal abuse in our indifferent society from a charity that is the equivalent of PETA in its local market.

This film provides a unique sensory experience where hearing and sight are highly exploited, shedding light to the cruelty that these defenseless beings go through to instill public debate a few months before the French presidential elections with the objective of making it a real electoral challenge.

For this campaign, the Foundation has chosen to highlight general animal causes, going beyond the sole issue of abandonment, a strategic turning point that also corresponds to public debate knowing the film aimed to be broadcasted a few months before the French presidential elections.

Indeed, the public debate and public opinion is becoming increasingly aware of the fate of many animals, making this issue a real electoral challenge.

The film features domestic and wild animals in appalling situations: a dog abandoned by its master, a wounded deer hunted by hunters, a bull mutilated after a bullfight, a monkey used in a laboratory, or a bear exploited by a circus... In turn, the animals cry out in despair, but man chooses to remain unmoved by this distress.

"Each animal stands out by the deep distress they express. Their call metaphorically unites all animal causes in a common song," explains the director.

"The shocking images that some charities broadcast are very useful and allow us to denounce horrible behaviors, but they are so violent that not everyone can bear to watch them," explains the director.

The idea here was to echo these videos, which often go viral because they are shocking, by showing a multitude of real acts of abuse that we can no longer close our eyes to.

Taking the animals' point of view and humanizing their pain immediately allows to immediately identify the charity renowned for such campaigns and to grab the viewers attention.